The Senate has confirmed Treasury Secretary Jack Lew in a 71-to-26 vote. Lew was an executive at Citigroup from 2006 to 2008 at the time of the financial crisis and a longtime proponent of deregulating Wall Street. In a statement, Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont explained his vote against Lew, saying: “We need a secretary of the Treasury who does not come from Wall Street, but is prepared to stand up to the enormous power of Wall Street.”